Regents Prep- Multiple choice practice

The figurative language in lines 84 and 85 reveals that Mrs. Bishop is

"She saw that the cuff was badly worn and a bit of the lining showed. It looked dreadfully like the sleeve of the overcoat she had seen in the subway. And, suddenly, looking at it, she had a horrible sinking feeling, as though she were falling in a dream."

• confused about her values

• relieved of her discontent

• forced to face reality

• pleased to learn the truth

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

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It had been noisy and crowded at the Milligan’s and Mrs. Bishop had eaten too many little sandwiches and too many iced cakes, so that now, out in the street, the air felt good to her, even if it was damp and cold. At the entrance of the apartment house, she took out her change purse and looked through it and found that by counting the pennies, too, she had just eighty-seven cents, which wasn’t enough for a taxi from Tenth Street to Seventy-Third. It was horrid never having enough money in your purse, she thought. Playing bridge,1 when she lost, she often had to give I.O.U.’s and it was faintly embarrassing, although she always managed to make them good. She resented Lila Hardy who could say, “Can anyone change a ten?” and who could take ten dollars from her small, smart bag while the other women scurried about for change.

The first paragraph creates a sense of

• submission

• urgency

• frustration

• hopelessness

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

But by the time the train reached Seventy-Second Street, the closeness of the air and the confusion of her own worries had made her feelings less poignant,6 so that her smile, when she gave it, lacked something. The man looked away embarrassed.

Lines 44 through 46 convey Mrs. Bishop’s

• confidence

• insincerity

• optimism

• hostility

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

The figurative language used in lines 9 through 11 suggests the

And think again, as often when the air

Moves inward toward a silent core of waiting,

How with a single purpose time has traveled

Through currents of unguessed fatality

Into this polar realm, this present island.

• anticipation of life’s challenges

• questioning of life’s meaning

• appreciation of patience

• importance of solitude

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Time in the hand is not control of time, Nor shattered fragments of an instrument The breaking of a cordon* of events. The wind will rise: we can only close the shutters.

* cordon — string

The statement, “The wind will rise: we can only close the shutters” (line 21) most likely means we

• can overcome problems by denying them

• cannot predict our emotions but we can learn to ignore them

• can control events by understanding them

• cannot prevent our distress but we can choose how to deal with it

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Wherever humans have gone in the world, they have carried with them two things, language and fire. As they traveled through tropical forests they hoarded the precious embers of old fires and sheltered them from downpours. When they settled the barren Arctic, they took with them the memory of fire, and recreated it in stoneware vessels filled with animal fat. [Charles] Darwin himself considered these the two most significant achievements of humanity.

Charles Darwin — English naturalist who developed a scientific theory of evolution

When the author cites Darwin in lines 5 and 6, he most likely does so to...

• stress the equal importance of language and fire

• show scientific theories change over time

• suggest migration played a role in evolution

• lend credibility to the discussion

It is, of course, impossible to imagine a human society that does not have language, but—given the right climate and an adequacy of raw wild food—could there be a primitive tribe that survives without cooking? In fact, no such people have ever been found. Nor will they be, according to a provocative theory by Harvard biologist Richard Wrangham, who believes that fire is needed to fuel the organ that makes possible all the other products of culture, language included: the human brain.

Prococative- thought–provoking

Lines 9 through 11 serve to...

• present an argument

• explain an image

• resolve a controversy

• dismiss a counterclaim

Food is a subject on which most people have strong opinions, and Wrangham mostly excuses himself from the moral, political and aesthetic debates it provokes. Impeccably lean himself, he acknowledges blandly that some people will gain weight on the same diet that leaves others thin. “Life can be unfair,” he writes in his 2010 book Catching Fire, and his shrug is almost palpable on the page. He takes no position on the philosophical arguments for and against a raw-food diet, except to point out that it can be quite dangerous for young children. For healthy adults, it’s “a terrific way to lose weight.”

In the context of lines 26 through 32, Wrangham’s quote “a terrific way to lose weight” is most likely meant to be

• poetic

• hostile

• ironic

• theoretical

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CCSS.RL.2.6

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Carmody explains that only a fraction of the calories in raw starch and protein are absorbed by the body directly via the small intestine. The remainder passes into the large bowel, where it is broken down by that organ’s ravenous population of microbes, which consume the lion’s share for themselves.

The use of the word “ravenous” (line 46) suggests that microbes in the large bowel are

• deadly

• aggressive

• healthy

• energizing

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

In essence, cooking—including not only heat but also mechanical processes such as chopping and grinding—outsources some of the body’s work of digestion so that more energy is extracted from food and less expended in processing it. Cooking breaks down collagen, the connective tissue in meat, and softens the cell walls of plants to release their stores of starch and fat.

According to lines 53 through 55, a key benefit of cooking food is that it

• completes the body’s need for collagen

• prevents the body from absorbing fat

• aids the body in fighting disease

• assists the body in digesting food

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2